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I wonder how a guy who begins thinking along the lines “What if I’m not showing trustworthiness in my relationships with women, but I (mis)perceive that I am trustworthy?” Same thing applies to questioning one’s emotional availability. Same thing applies to questioning one’s integrity.

Apart from this being self-doubt, it could actually be more true than false.

How does this guy change his behavior in order to authentically demonstrate trustworthiness and emotional availability and integrity?

I suspect that a lot of men simply surrender themselves to being alone and give up on (sexual and platonic) intimacy saying to themselves “It’s just not the cards in the game of life I was dealt. I can’t change my personality.”

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Trustworthiness is sexy. Huh.. I knew it was desirable but never thought about it as the primary item on the list.. and I must look at a lot of old relationships and realizing warranted or not that was the primary issue

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I've always been trustworthy but took it as a given that this was the baseline norm and never went out of my way to show that I am different. I never knew I needed to, that the presumption was men are untrustworthy by default.

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Aug 13, 2023Liked by Joseph Shirk, Godparticle

Wow what in encyclopedia of relationship in the fall that makes sense. I remember decades ago in my first marriage we went to a deepening your Love seminar at kripalu yoga retreat center (of course) in Lenox Mass. It was much more basic version of this. But we were never attuned before she got pregnant and wasn't after either so it was a short stint of a marriage

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Women on birth control are not attracted to the same men they are off birth control.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DepMxvP9Su0

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I'm so glad that someone else besides me found this valuable. It's really shocking to me that I have never really heard it put this way, this seriously. I have to ask how that is even possible.

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